Progress Party of Norway

The Progress Party is a right-wing populist political party in Norway that was founded on 8 April 1973. The party identified as classical liberal (libertarian) and conservative-liberal, and the party was founded as an anti-tax protest movement. The party valued individual freedom strongly, supported market liberalism, advocated downsizing bureaucracy and the public sector, proposed increased spending on infrastructure, sought to enact stricter immigration laws, and sought to implement tougher integration and law and order policies. The Progress Party supported membership in NATO and globalization, but it opposed Norwegian membership in the European Union]. In 1997, the party became the second-largest party in Norway, and it entered the government for the first time in 2013 when it formed a coalition government with the [[Conservative Party of Norway.